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Turn PPV channels into normal channels... Finally!

Well, I started looking into this problem (again) today. I was working on it awhile back, but once I got a version of PITOU that allowed advanced PPV purchases, I quit working on this. Now I'm running a different setup and I wouldn't want to purchase them even if I could. So here is my solution...

This script is a less than ideal way to accomplish this. Unfortunately the TiVo stores this PPV flag in each showing instead of each channel. This makes it a little tougher to do, but the main problem with this is that the script will need to be re-run at an unknown interval.

Since this script can't change data that isn't available yet, when 2 weeks are up, you'll probably run into a PPV showing that was added after you ran this script. I'm guessing it will need to be run every 2 weeks +/- a few days.

I've seen quite a few posts about this, so hopefully this will come in handy out there. Also, every time you run the script, it will say it removed the PPV flag for a show even if it's already been removed.

Let me know if anyone has any suggestions (like using a file to store stations like mvchannels does to speed things up).

Before PMing me: I知 not your personal tech support. If you have a question, ask in public so I don't have to repeat if somebody else asks. If you want images or slices, use emule. I will ignore all support PMs.

I really don't know why it would be doing that unless the ForeachMfsFile function is returning a bad fsid. I tested an instance where a station would have no values in /Schedule and it ran through with no output. It still didn't throw an exception like yours did.

I haven't looked at how your script works, nor do I know jack about MFS at all, so this I must ask, do you think for any reason that my using a patched kernel following GhostCoders specs (for no scrambling) should cause a problem?

Before PMing me: I知 not your personal tech support. If you have a question, ask in public so I don't have to repeat if somebody else asks. If you want images or slices, use emule. I will ignore all support PMs.

i used the script seemed to work great... good idea.. lets see if i understand how this works, by looking at the output... it re-lables every ppv event in the ~12 day guide.. as non ppv.. point being it relables everything in the guide at the current time.. right?

.. hmm , wonder what you switched to instead of pitou

p.s. i noticed it removed the ppv flag from {tivo nightly service download} wonder why that would be ppv? hmm

Hmm....Ya know, I just rebooted my tivo and tried it...seems to work now.

Says PPV flag removed. (movie name here)
several times.

Problem appears to be solved.

Would have tried it earlier but I was in the middle of recording something, sorry

Before PMing me: I知 not your personal tech support. If you have a question, ask in public so I don't have to repeat if somebody else asks. If you want images or slices, use emule. I will ignore all support PMs.

BTW, nice fix formula, if it were up to me, I would recommend everybody use this because it adds the convience of not nearly as much hassle to record a pay per view.

EDIT: As for this running daily, if you happen to be using the TivoTitle script and have it set to run daily, add a line in RunTivoTitle to execute noppv.tcl > /dev/null inside of the if/fi statements.

Last edited by AlphaWolf; 02-24-2002 at 01:18 AM.

Before PMing me: I知 not your personal tech support. If you have a question, ask in public so I don't have to repeat if somebody else asks. If you want images or slices, use emule. I will ignore all support PMs.

Originally posted by Glitched i got ya.. so it just does this for all channels in the 100-200 range... including 100(tivo service download)...

i havent check, but does it do the 594-598 range also?? LOL

Just tested it...nope. Ready for another version formula?

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